Thursday, April 16, 2009

Linux! CentOS 5.2

Ok, so I have this email MTA server that uses the MAC Address of the server for its licensing. I just moved the server from one VM Server to another, and couldn't get the app to start. Apparently, In CentOS5.2, changing the MAC Address in the Ethernet Device - Bind to Mac Address - didn't work. Had to use these commands:

ifdown eth0

ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:0c:29:98:1b:bb

ifup eth0

I assume if I reboot, it will change back to the "real one", but this is a virtual machine? Surely i can change this somewhere...

Monday, April 13, 2009

ESXi - Day 2

Last week we loaded ESXi

VMware ESX Server 3i U4
Version 3.5 Update 4 | 153875 - 03/30/09

Dell PE1950
2x4x3.0 Ghz
4 GB Ram
PERC 5/i Controller
2x146 GB SAS 10K RAID1

I have been successfully using VMWare Server 1.x for 3 years now, and was quite happy when they released a free version of ESX.

We need to test Win XP IE8 and Vista IE8. Loaded the Guests without issue. Need to benchmark and test performance (disk I/O and network)